Word: panic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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There were "three hours of panic I'd made the wrong decision, that there was an East Coast upper crust that I couldn't work with," he says...
...something very bouncy down there. Pushed over a cliff by underwhelming earnings reports from components IBM and JP Morgan, the Dow plummeted 435 points to a nostalgic (March '99) level of 9654 before 10 a.m. Big Blue dropped 23 points, Morgan shed 18, the curbs were on, and panic...
...selling and general October angst drive stocks down further. Don't abandon tech stocks, but don't be wed to them either. Slowing PC demand is a problem. Cheaper groups such as banks, utilities and energy--even after a recent run--may serve you better. Above all, don't panic, especially if others...
...have been worrying quietly about oil for months, but corporate earnings - related to oil, but which incorporate a larger set of worries - have been at center stage. But when rockets flew, this wasn't a solely economic headache. This had the whiff of war, spurring a particular kind of panic-selling analysts said they hadn't seen since Saddam stormed Kuwait...
...George W. Bush and his stupidity: Are his little mispronunciations ("subliminable") and touches of blank panic when the discussion gets complex to be compared to such immense Shakespearean stupidities as, say, the Watergate capers - the imbecile break-ins, the moronic dirty tricks, and, above all, wily Richard Nixon's weird refusal to destroy the tapes? Can W. measure up to the standard of the Gingrich Republicans, who seized the government with a Cromwellian vengeance in 1994 and then so idiotically overplayed their hand that Bill Clinton deftly recovered and sailed on through a second term? No. The Republicans since Ronald...